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But then you zoom in on that thought, and all else freezes, and you realize with a dull horror that your grimace is not because of the pain, but because of the pleasure that is coming with that pain, the pleasure that you are enjoying, although it is he, your enemy, that is giving it to you. Your muscles tighten as, in shame, you struggle all the more, although you know the truth: it is useless. Because, deep down, there is no denying it, you want this, have always wanted it, and being a Gryffindor, stubborn, brave, and reckless, you always fight and fight and fight until you get what you want.

Harry is sixteen, and his dating record is just plain sad. What is it that prevents his happiness? As it turns out, music.

A fic told from Percy's POV, looking back on his days at Hogwarts, and what the future holds...

Hermione has never been drunk before. It's an astonishingly embarrassing experience. (Slight AU.)

"Harry," Draco whispered gently into the other boy's ear, rustling the dark locks. Harry made small noises of dissent and wrapped himself tighter around Draco's naked body. The light-haired boy chuckled slightly and craned his neck to look out of the solitary window. White snowflakes fell past the window in straight lines, with no wind to bounce them off their path. Draco smiled to himself and put a hand on Harry's arm, caressing the smooth skin. "Harry, wake up, it's snowing."

Harry's thinking of spending another Christmas alone. He receives an invitation to celebrate at the Burrow, but he doesn't want to see Ron. Thankfully, Remus shows Harry what's really important.

The thing he’ll remember most vividly is the leaves. [Sirius/Lily. Plenty of Angst. Part One of "The Heart’s Progress", a series of vignettes]

The Head Girl and the Princess of Slytherin, different as night and day, brought together by circumstances beyond their control to forge an unlikely bond and an even more unlikely relationship. A relationship between Pansy & Hermione, concentrating primarily on Pansy's POV and experiences.

Poor Ginevra Molly Weasley. The tormented sister of the Weasley boys confronts dilemmas around every corner: "Does God hate me? That must be it."

The tighter the leash, the harder the pull. The only reaction to so many baseless boundaries is to break free from them, even if it means you must lead the rebellion. [Pansy Parkinson]

Severus Snape is passed a note by his stalker, I mean Sybill Trelawney and of course Minerva McGonagall is loving it. (The ships included are only mentioned slightly).

First year Pansy Parkinson didn't know what to expect when she woke up in her Slytherin dorm for the first time. Follow the eventful first morning at Hogwarts of Pansy, Blaise, Millicent, and Draco as they get to know their roommates, learn where the hospital wing is, and forge lifelong friendships.

In a beach villa in the south of France, Fleur and Gabrielle Delacour are allowed to be sisters. Genfic, oneshot.

At the end of every school year, Luna Lovegood makes the conscious decision to sit by herself on the train back to King's Cross. The end of her fourth year is no different, despite the requests of her newfound friends. As she sits in her compartment, she uses the time alone to compose a very special letter.

Post HPB, Minerva puts Albus' chessboard back in order, and comes to some conclusions about the rules of war.

Draco tries hard to convince himself that he hates Hermione by writing a list of the things he hates about her. But when the list falls into Hermione's hands...

Draco returns to Ginny after months of battle. Songfic to "o my my" by Ani DiFranco. D/G fluff.

Tonks culminates a bad day by ushering in a couple of very unexpected visitors: an old, troubled friend, and his dog.

Harry's long hour practicing Quidditch leaves him with something he'd rather not have...

Harry Potter is acting strange, but Draco just shrugs it off. Draco shrugs a lot of things off, whether it be in uninterest... or denial. Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter SLASH.

Monologue from the perspective of Draco and/or James reflecting on the loves of their lives. Don't forget a bit of sadness and bitterness from rivalry and hatred. But love does conquer all, however hopeless the future may seem...

Harry goes into Snape's office in search of an ingredient and finds more than he bargained for.

When you contemplate Draco and how pale his skin is, what disturbing thoughts can surface? What it would be like if he had wings? Of course, Draco is no angel and his lover is no devil. He's still the hero with a broken heart.

Fluff! Ginny's learning how to become her animagus. Draco has taken a liking to a kitten at Hogwarts who keeps ending up in his bed. Draco's adorably evil! Ginny's a flirt!

Adhara Jocelyn Black has always been torn between her loyalty to James Potter, her cousin Sirius's best mate, and Lily Evans, the sister she has never known. But in her seventh year everything changes. Join Jocelyn, Sirius, Lily, and the rest of the Marauders as they battle for their lives... and loves...

Harry has an unexpected visitor bearing...tofu.

A walk after one of Remus' transformations including a discussion with a complete stranger, a pitiful site and an odd reference to twilight.

My version.

A unique Love Potion, after drinking which you smell lusfully and the person who you're in love with finally notices you? Evan Rosier drank too much of this... and now he has to run and hide because the whole female society of Hogwarts has fallen in love with him and his wonderful scent.

~I want to scream.~ She didn't know where she was, who had her, or anything else. She didn't know that magic existed. She didn't know her captors were called Death Eaters. It wouldn't matter.

Understanding is discovered between two outsiders. Neville Longbottom/Millicent Bulstrode.

Draco Malfoy comes across the Mirror of Erised one night, only to discover his heart's deepest desire... Ronald Weasley!

COMPLETE Voldemort has decreed a punishment for the traitor. What will happen to Severus? SSHG

One month post HBP, Severus sits writing a mad assignment for the Dark Lord. To be read with Vivaldi and a glass of cognac.

Just a typical, normal, ordinary, bizarre, strange, and horrific day at Hogwarts. Warning: This story is not supposed to make sense or have a plot, or meaning!

What happens when the Weasley twins find trouble instead of causing it?

It is the beginning of Harry’s sixth year at Hogwarts and Harry meets another determined soldier in his fight against Voldemort. (Complete)

The return of a figure from 22 year old Remus Lupin's past places him and the rest of the Marauders in a difficult and potential fatal situation. Can they save Moony from his destined fate?

Lord Voldemort has reluctantly agreed to write his confession on a roll of parchment. Here is what he has to say to the world...

Draco regards opera as a complete waste of time. However, one particular night there changes his mind radically.

When in a romantic rut, and being devoured by detestably sappy Christmas carols, one can find out the strangest things about themselves with some good, old-fashioned, bartender therapy… a one-shot Lily and James fic

Half-Blood Prince Spoilers. Narcissa Malfoy finds herself deeply concerned for her son when he returns abruptly from Hogwarts.

Seventeen years after the death of his parents, Harry returns to Godric's Hollow to exorcise himself of their ghosts. But what he finds there opens the floodgates of memory, and he is forced to remember what happened that night, long ago...

Hermione proves her love. *tom/hermione*

Taking place around 2005, Harry Potter is a general in the Great Wizard War against Voldemort. Slight H/Hr

Through an unfortunate (or would that be fortunate?) accident, Charlie Weasley meets an extraordinary character.

Everyone was upset when Rowling killed him off, but one fangirl decided to do something about it.

This story is about the continuing pain of Harry's scar and the return of Voldemort. Also in this story you find out lots of information. You will find out why Dumbledore always sends Harry home to the Dursley's before going to Ron's house.

"I found myself attracted to the lighter, sweeter taste of the milk while she indulged deeply in the bittersweet dark; and we laughed at how opposite our urges were from ourselves."````How memories of chocolate can bring you back together, after Hogwarts houses have torn you both apart.

It was his fault. All his fault. Draco remembered well enough to know this. His fault that his sister, Karina, was always in pain, his fault she had nearly died... his fault that she had been cursed with a strange and horrible gift... one that would change the lives of all she touched forever.

After Voldemort's demise, Harry has a rather painful talk with an incarcerated Death Eater.

Sirius Black knew there was something he didn't like about Cardiff....

You can’t win against anyone, if you can’t win against yourself. Harry/Dudley.

"We are at the end of an age, of a great battle that has been raging for years. Some of you have lost loved ones and classmates. You will more than likely encounter others out there. Do not hesitate to strike first. " The final battle has begun. Who survive and who will die?

Harry witnesses the passing of a mentor and doesn't know how to cope. Quick one-shot.

A letter to nobody from nobody. Except for that certain somebody and a crazy person’s point of view. About betrayal and visions of the same kind. Very dark. It has nothing to do with the letter.

Severus Snape is thirty-five years old and is looking back upon his life. It is with regret he thinks about the one true love of his life and how he lost her to the man he hates the most.

Take a deep breath, count backwards from ten... and above all else ... don't worry! It will all be over soon. The world, that is. Yet for Harry Potter, the end is just the beginning. Enemies close in on all sides, and Harry faces the greatest challenge of all... Time. The Boy Who Lived will do so again, as an ancient legend will rise from the dark, murky depths of time, screaming with enough power to shatter the world.

Most of the time, I can live with it.

A new twist on an old game. An extroverted Narcissa does what she can to pull a shy Lucius out of his shell

A long-awaited meeting. Two Black sisters. One unspoken question... Post OoP.

What happens when Sirius Black falls for a girl who makes all his charms and tricks worth nothing? And what happens when that same girl causes turmoil in the close friendship between Sirius and James?

Sirius Black is not jealous. Of course not. Not at all. He just doesn't like the way Angela's newest admirer keeps looking at her and drooling... Well, maybe he is a little jealous.

Even if we think we are prepared, sometimes the most unlikely person makes us realise otherwise, as Regulus finds out. No ships.

James' emotions get the better of him and Lily is no longer sure how she feels. What happens is an amazing story of love and how sometimes, you just can't wait.

Sequel to The Day Petunia Went Mad. It's the day before MWPP/Lily go back to Hogwarts, and Petunia decides that now is the time to show them what she's made of!

The workers of the WB wondered how the trio would react to finding everything that had been devoted to or focused on them. Through a letter, they decided to find out. How will the trio react to finding all that is devoted to them?

When Draco starts dating Ginny, weird things start to mar his perfect neck skin.

"TheprophecysaysIhaveto...hesevil...hekilledmyparents...hekilledSirius...hekilledsomany....I don’t want him to hurt anyone, ever again." The end of Book 7. One-shot.

The long-expected battle has been fought and Voldemort is dead. With many losses on both sides, the aftermath of the war will take its toll on everyone involved - Harry Potter and Severus Snape included. What can they offer each other that will lead them towards unexpected common ground?

She doesn't wear black anymore; she hasn't in a long time, now. She wears reds, vivid and rich as blood, beautiful red-oranges the color of her hair, pale sky-kissed blues and deep royal blue-violet, mellow, sunny yellows, and green most often; green the shade of his eyes. She doesn't laugh anymore, but she doesn't cry, and has not cried for many years.``She is always in mourning.

James Potter and Lily Evans: Completely different, but completely in love. Their truimphs and losses, victories and pranks, from first kiss to last.

"To die, to sleep-- to sleep, perchance to dream." -William Shakespeare

Have you ever wondered what became of Gilderoy Lockhart after CoS? An article in the Daily Prophet reveals the answer to this question to the trio who most likely haven't wondered about Lockhart either...

They're in their twenties now, out of school, but they still have the same spirited sarcasm they always had. Read an interview in The Time-Turner newspaper about the infamous Marauders and their activities...along with other things.

Under other circumstances, all of Severus Snape's dreams would be coming true. But in this last year at Hogwart's, he must make a choice that breaks his heart.

"She had learned from the master, after all. Only to take that mastery, take it, twist it and use it. Use it to devour him as he had devoured her."

My first real lesson in life was almost unrecognizable when it came to me and it came in the form of a black-haired, be-spectacled boy... Cho watches Harry cry at the edge of the lake and it changes her in ways she will never forget. Sonfic to Mandy Moore's "Cry".

Harry and Ginny receive mysterious and disturbing letters from none other than Draco Malfoy himself. What has happened to Draco? Can Harry face the role that he has played in Draco's life and downfall? And if so, can he and Ginny live with the guilt? -- Sequel to "Draco's Song"

Arielle Lupin, Remus Lupin's cousin, has many secrets. One of them is``how much she likes Sirius Black. In their seventh year at Hogwarts, Sirius begins to like Arielle as well. But Arielle's other secrets are dangerous, and she cannot love anyone for``fear that her enemies will kill them. Will Sirius and Arielle end up together, as was meant to be?

The night after Voldemort's fall, Albus Dumbledore pays a visit to Severus Snape. Features Snape's first lesson as a teacher!

Attention all Harry/Ginny shippers! When Harry left Ginny seven years ago, he took her heart with him. Upon returning, he finds her engaged to another. Immediately, he endeavors to win her back, but will she ever trust him again?

The night Remus Lupin met Harry Potter was trying one for the new Professor. To ease his pain, he writes letters to Lily and James, knowing that the words will never be read.

Snape is puzzled by one of his students. She is smart and funny and everybody loves her, but Snape know the look of one who bears a dark secret, and that look is upon Alannah Leskevitch. As the Potions professor comes to know this girl, he learns that she has suffered more than he could have ever imagined. He sees in her parallels to his own life, and slowly begins to show a human side of himself that lay hidden for many years. Set in the Trio's seventh year during the Second War, love, determination, and sacrifice must rise up out of the evil that encases the world.

Fred survives the Battle of Hogwarts, but at a price: he is blinded. A guilty Percy declares himself his helper. Fred could barely stand Percy being a git, but this helpful, overtly friendly Percy is driving him mad.

After the incident in the Department of Mysteries, Harry is visited by everyone's favorite centaur, at the Astronomy Tower. And hope may have returned... One-shot, complete!

They wooble. They kreble. Let the snerking begin (Spellcheck optional).

Sirius persuades Remus to go out to a Muggle nightclub, where things get... interesting... very quickly. S/R. Somewhat-mild slash.

In the years before Harry was born, four Marauders, four friends, shared a special bond of friendship. Now one is a traitor, one hero died for his family, one innocent misunderstood man died protecting all he had left, and one still lives, a monster reborn every full moon. This is their story. Join the Marauders through the years of their lives; through laughs and losses, love and tears.

It's finally the end of the War, and everyone's both celebrating and mourning those claimed in the conflict. One loss in particular has everyone crushed, but none more so than one particular Ravenclaw...````Slightly AU

Harry survives the final battle of the Second War, but is left comatose and apparently brain dead. Now Ron must decide between two difficult choices: to keep his best friend alive by magical and mechanical means...or to give a hero the true and noble coda he deserves. (One-shot exploring euthanasia in a magical context.)

The story of a certain Slytherin and how he became the man we all know and love... well, some of us.

Slytherins + Sharp, pointy things = interesting happenings. Who bests whom remains to be seen.

"Possibly, just possibly, it was very bad idea to go to dinner that night."``Teachers should always be present. Some things just should not be seen. Well, it's all a matter of taste, really.

A one-shot from Petunia's point of view, showing her and Lily's relationship at various different points in time. An attempt to try and give a few theories about Petunia's attitude to magic, Harry, etc. Features guest appearances from Vernon, Marge, MWPP (including Punk!Sirius) and is hopefully not overly angsty.

Two years have passed and darker times threaten to encroach as the war rages on around the Order. A storm is on the horizon as Voldemort's forces continue to grow stronger and Harry hunts for the remaining Horcruxes. Hermione's keeping secrets from her closest friends and she trusts no one while Remus' very soul crumbles. They are all searching for a way to rise from the ashes.

Although no one ever bothers to acknowledge Millicent Bulstrode, she DOES exist. In fact, underneath that ugly exterior lives just another dreamy, insecure girl. At the Halloween Masquerade, Millicent thinks that her only problem is finding a dance partner. But as the night progresses, Millicent learns much more about herself and those around her. (D/Hr/B, PP/GG)

A short story based on Sarah McLachlan's "Wintersong". Years after the final battle, Harry lives on in a certain blonde Slytherin's heart.

No one knew why the Snape hated Christmas so much,``Some said facing a werewolf had scarred him a touch,``Some said serving Lord Thingy had made him a prat,``But most said it was due to a vulture-topped hat.

It’s the beginning of the sixth year and Harry’s finding himself drawn to the mysterious new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. If this wasn't enough to complicate his already complicated life, the new teacher is also a man… and a vampire.